<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Thanks for this. It's in fact from Patrick's brother Andrew - father of Olivia Wilde...</div><div><br></div><div>Their elder brother was Alexander, who died last summer. I was pleased to call him a friend. </div><div><br></div><div>Kirk should be excoriated on this matter. And BTW Woolsey is nutty, even for a neocon.</div><div><br></div><div>Francis Boyle pointed out that one of the speakers on the campus panel on Syria last month has a grant from the "Foundation for the Defense of Democracies" to go to Israel - to, ah, study democracy...</div><div><br></div>--CGE<div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 14, 2013, at 12:01 AM, Brussel Morton K. <<a href="mailto:mkbrussel@comcast.net">mkbrussel@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>From an article by Patrick Cockburn: <a href="http://www.zcommunications.org/a-very-perfect-instrument-by-andrew-cockburn.html">http://www.zcommunications.org/a-very-perfect-instrument-by-andrew-cockburn.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">…In consequence, many of the “truly biting” measures cited by Cohen have come from Capitol Hill, passed with crushing bipartisan majorities, and can be repealed only from there. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; "><b>Certain members, such as Senators Mark Kirk of Illinois and Robert Menendez of New Jersey, as well as Ed Royce, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, have emerged as pacesetters on the issue.</b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; "> Behind these public figures stand an assortment of more shadowy aides, such as Kirk’s deputy chief of staff Richard Goldberg or Royce’s foreign-policy adviser Matthew Zweig. They in turn work closely with powerful outside players in the world of sanctions, most notably a group called the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, chaired by former CIA director James Woolsey.…</span></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Peace-discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a><br>https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>